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Palm Beach Zoo Welcomes Baby Baird's Tapir
March 15, 2014
An endangered female Baird's Tapir born on February 17 at the Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society is the Zoo's first birth of 2014. The calf was named Luna in a naming contest at nearby Palmetto Elementary School.
Photo Credit: Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society
Jan Steele, General Curator for the Zoo, said from its birth, the calf has been in good health, and has been gaining weight at a steady rate. "At first, we monitored the calf, but gave Alyssa space to strengthen her bond with her baby," explained Steele. "Because Alyssa rejected her first calf, we wanted to make sure she allowed this second one to nurse."
Zoo keepers had been studying methods to increase the likelihood that Alyssa would accept this calf, and had given her "scratch-downs" which calmed her and allowed multiple ultrasounds that showed the calf's progress before it was born.
The calf's weight was 40.5 pounds on March 7, when she was seventeen days old. Zoo keepers said the calf is on target to double in weight within her first three to four weeks of life, as Tapirs are expected to do.
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Wendy Stone runs between 4 and 8 miles most days, teaches both Pilates and yoga at her studio in Walpole, and has eaten only whole, unprocessed foods and organic fruits and vegetables for years.
She did not turn to "juice cleansing" to purge bad habits, cure a disease, or to lose weight. After one of her clients came to class "looking radiant," and raving about how awesome she felt after drinking only fruit and vegetable juices for three days, Stone, 41, decided to give it a try. She has been doing a cleanse once a month since August.
"At first I was fearful. I didn't know if I could not eat for three days, or if I could go to work and not pass out. By the second day, I was irritable and uncomfortable. But by day 3, I felt great. I had a lot of energy, I felt svelte in my body and in tune. I had a sense of accomplishment," Stone said.
Fasting is as old as the oldest religion and home juicing has been in and out of vogue for decades, but the recent trend of juice fasting, which typically involves subsisting on nothing but cold-pressed juice for three to seven days, has surged as companies have sprung up to make and ship the fresh juices, saving customers the time, effort, and mess usually expended when juicing at home. These packaged juices are ordered online and in most cases delivered to the customer's door.
The idea is that when juice is extracted from the fruits and vegetables, leaving behind the pulp, the vitamins, minerals, and enzymes of the nutrient-dense liquid are more speedily absorbed. The companies' websites claim that the benefits of a juice cleanse include weight loss, elimination of toxins, mental clarity, an immune system boost, and improved skin and overall health.
But some health experts are dubious.
"There is no good science that a juice fast can prevent, treat, or cure a medical condition, and it can be a complicating factor," said Jennifer Nelson, director of clinical nutrition at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, adding that for diabetics or pre-diabetics a juice fast can be dangerous.
She also questions the need to "detox" the body through fasting. "Your body's natural function cleanses itself of what you have ingested," she said. "Our livers and kidneys are all good filters to get rid of toxins."
Nelson said, however, that a three-day juice fast likely won't harm an otherwise healthy person, and could be useful to break unhealthy eating habits.
While the health benefits of these juice cleanse programs are debatable, the growing popularity is not. The New York-based BluePrintCleanse, a major player in the trend, began selling its juice cleanse in 2007 and by 2010, had sales of $10 million, according to Bloomberg Businessweek magazine. Cofounder Zoe Sakoutis declined to give current revenues, but said the company continues to grow. An increasing number of celebrities are photographed with the pre-made juice bottles in their hands, and one, Salma Hayek, has even started her own juice cleanse company.
Locally, Lauri Meizler, founder of Newton-based Joos, which distributes its juices mostly through yoga studios, gyms, and wellness centers, said sales doubled last year, though she wouldn't provide figures. And at Whole Foods, Roger Perrett, the grocery buyer for the North Atlantic region, said sales of the BluePrint juices have been brisk in many of the urban stores, with some expanding shelf space.
To preserve nutrients, juice companies such as BluePrintCleanse, Catalyst, Cooler Cleanse, Organic Avenue, and Joos use cold-pressure hydraulic methods of extracting the juice from organic fruits and vegetables to avoid adding the heat that occurs when grinding or blending. The companies also employ bottling and shipping practices designed to keep the juice from losing potency through oxidation.
The cleanse programs typically include six 16-ounce juices per day that are numbered in the order in which they are to be ingested, as well as instructions and online support. But the convenience is costly. With overnight shipping, a three-day juice cleanse costs upward of $200.
Juicing at home isn't cheap either, says Stone, because of the necessary investment of a juice extracting machine — costing anywhere from $100 to $500 depending on size and type — and the large quantities of organic fruits and vegetables required. "To get 16 ounces of juice you are talking about pounds and pounds of organic greens," she says. "When you make it on your own, it's more time consuming — and I don't think it's any more cost-effective."
Sakoutis says her idea for the BluePrint cleanse evolved from her experience with the raw food movement. "When you change the molecular structure of food, the body no longer is able to identify it and assimilate it the same way." She says this applies not just to cooking food, but also to pasteurizing juices. "If you are drinking orange juice from Tropicana, it is not an orange from the tree. Your body knows it," she says.
The idea of a cleanse is "to give your body a rest," from digestion as well as the animal proteins, caffeine, alcohol, and highly processed foods that many people normally consume, Sakoutis says. "We are consuming these in quantities as never before. It's not healthy and it's not natural. Our bodies are not designed to digest Twinkies and Raisinets."
Meizler, of Joos, has a slightly different model. Because of demand, she offers a three-day juice cleanse but doesn't heavily promote it.
Instead, she tries to direct her clients to what she calls a "reboot," to break bad habits and establish new habits. "A reboot, which can range from three to 21 days, includes Joos juices, but allows you to eat unlimited fruits and vegetables throughout the day, as well as one "sensible" meal at lunchtime and a salad or stir-fry at dinner. These programs include health coaching and start at $149 for three days — less expensive than the pure juice fast, because the company is providing fewer bottles of juice per day. Customers supplement with their own food.
A pure juice fast "is a sprint," Meizler says, and can mess up your metabolism. "Anytime you deprive yourself of something, you want it back. If you fast, you go into starvation mode. Your body overcompensates."
Marjorie Nolan Cohn, a registered dietician and spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly American Dietetic Association), questions the popular argument that a raw vegetable and fruit diet makes the body more alkaline and thus resistant to disease. "It's completely wrong and makes no sense."
In reality, our body knows perfectly well how to neutralize everything we are eating. "Even if you ate nothing but Big Macs all day — even though that's highly acidic and supposedly toxic — your body is going to figure out how to cleanse your blood."
Nelson adds that the digestive track doesn't need the "rest," and in fact, works better when food is moving through it. Removing the pulp from certain vegetables also eliminates the phytochemicals that are found in the fiber.
The euphoria and mental clarity many juice fasters report on the third day of the fast isn't about good health, Cohn says, but a simple result of starvation. "At some point your body shuts down that feeling of immediate hunger, you become lightheaded and dizzy, and that euphoric feeling starts to come on," she says. "I work with a lot of anorexics, and they feel euphoria, too."
She believes the primary motivation fueling the current frenzy isn't health, but weight loss. She says the average person will lose about 5 pounds through the cleanse, but it will be mostly water loss, and easily regained.
"But if you can use it as a jump start — and some people have that personality — losing 5 pounds could be motivation to cleaner eating. It could be a positive thing," she said.
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Why Edgar Cayce?
By Jerry Lazarus
"Each of us has the same spirit that gives us the ability to interpret our dreams."
Over the years people have asked me why I'm interested in Cayce's approach to dream interpretation. While I've studied Freud, Jung, and many contemporary dream theorists, none offer the depth, breadth, and scope of Cayce's understanding of dreams.
Cayce started interpreting dreams in 1923, some two decades after Freud published his work Interpretation of Dreams. Cayce placed an extraordinary emphasis on dreams, along with prayer and meditation. In reading 3744-2, Cayce said: "In this age, at present, 1923 … there is not sufficient credence given dreams; for the best development of the human family is to give the greater increase in knowledge of the subconscious, soul or spirit world. This is a dream."
Cayce interpreted 1,500 dreams for 69 people over a 20-year period. These dreams were by no means unique; they were the everyday dreams of Everyman and Everywoman. It was his interpretations that set him apart from most dream theorists. Here we find a parallel to Cayce's medical readings. Repeatedly, many doctors completely agreed with Cayce's diagnoses, but they disagreed with his treatment methods.
Such immediate and accurate analysis, whether of dreams or of illnesses, poses an enormous challenge to conventional minds. How can we begin to fathom Cayce's extraordinary abilities to work with dreams? His skills included but were not limited to:
- interpreting anyone's dream with swiftness, surety, and accuracy
- recalling parts of or entire dreams forgotten by the dreamer
- correcting parts of dreams inaccurately recalled by the dreamer
- predicting when a person will dream about a certain topic, sometimes pinpointing the exact night
- interpreting the dream's symbols and message before hearing the dream;
- connecting the theme in a current dream with a past one, describing what the dreamer had done or not done about it
- commenting on the dreamer's undisclosed intimate details, including those of dreamers he wasn't acquainted with
A study of the large collection of dreams Cayce interpreted shows that he departs from dream interpretation techniques embraced by popular culture, including the views of many psychologists and psychiatrists. Dreams are not mere fantasies, and they deal with more than psychological issues. They address and enrich all aspects of a person. Dreams reflect an individual's purpose, makeup, and destiny. This destiny is to become well-rounded and complete individuals, fit to be companions and co-creators with God. Embarking on a spiritual journey and being open to making changes, we can expect much understanding from our dreams. They are telling us about our attitudes and aspirations, characteristics and capabilities, strengths and sincerity. Our dreams address all these in some form, at one time or another, but not randomly, for dreams are perfectly timed and sequenced.
Someone asked Cayce, "What state or trend of development is indicated if an individual does not remember dreams?" His answer was direct and succinct: those who do not recall and apply their dreams show "negligence" in their association with God. The desire to know God and oneself impels an individual to pay attention to his dreams. (5754-3)Even Cayce, with all his psychic abilities, was repeatedly told in the readings to study his dreams—which he did. Cayce encouraged someone, "And too oft, ye disregard them; or too seldom do ye pay any attention to them! They are parts of thy experience. How oft have ye visioned in symbol or in dream those very things that happened to thee later!" (1537-1)
Cayce's interpretations demonstrated his ability to tap into a higher level of knowing: what has been, what is, and what might be for each person. However, narrating facts of past events without reflection and challenge carries little meaning; speaking of current events without regard for their implications has no transformative value; commenting on the future without a spiritual framework for growth and change does not fully engage the dreamer. Dreamers are to work with what they have in hand, within the time, place, and circumstances, applying the highest ideals they know.
A spiritual force operated within Cayce. That force was not merely churning out data about a person or topic; anchored in love, it encouraged everyone to grow to their highest potential. Cayce assures us that we too have the same spiritual force, giving us the ability to interpret our own dreams.
Jerry Lazarus is a spiritual life coach, speaker, and author. He has a master's degree in religion and meditation, and has studied Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity. Jerry is the dream columnist for Venture Inward magazine, a frequent speaker for A.R.E. conferences, and teaches a course on dreams at Duke University. He leads workshops and retreats on dreams, meditation, ideals, comparative religion, and other spiritual and mystical topics across the United States. His book, Dreams: Listening to the Voice of God, is available at his Web site: jerrylazarus.com.
Want to get active in an A.R.E. Dream Group or try our free Dream Dictionary App for iTunes and Android? Visit EdgarCayce.org/dreams.


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Attorney: Suit over wife's affair with police chief is 'frivolous litigation'
An attorney for a Texas police chief being sued for harassment by a physician over an extramarital affair said on Monday that the suit is meaningless.
"On his behalf I will say, in no uncertain terms, that this lawsuit presents a case study in what frivolous litigation is all about," attorney Bob Gorsky said by email.
Gorsky, of the Dallas firm Lyon, Gorsky, Gilbert & Livingston, is representing Kyle Police Chief Jeffrey Barnett, who was previously chief in Princeton, Texas.
Gorsky said Monday that Barnett had not yet been served with the suit.
Dr. Glen W. Hurlston, of Vernon Parish, La., filed the harassment lawsuit Dec. 27 in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, in Sherman.
In addition to Barnett, other defendants in the suit are Lt. Robert Mitchnik and other unnamed officers in the Princeton Police Department; and the cities of Princeton and Kyle.
According to Hurlston's complaint, his wife, Suzanne Hurlston, had an affair with Barnett for several years and bore him a son. At times, she fraudulently claimed the child was Hurlston's, the suit states.
Hurlston claims in the lawsuit that Barnett used his position as Princeton police chief to instruct other officers, including Mitchnik, to harass him.
According to the complaint, Mitchnik and other officers arrested Hurlston Jan. 1, 2012, on a charge of domestic abuse battery "without substantial evidence."
The charge was later reduced to a minor misdemeanor, to which Hurlston pleaded no contest, the suit states.
Hurlston claims he wouldn't have been arrested if it hadn't been for his wife's relationship with Princeton officers and their former chief.
Gorsky's email stated that Hurlston's complaint does not mention that his arrest occurred nine months after Barnett had left Princeton.
"Chief Barnett resigned in early 2011 and after a few months of consulting for the police department, he had nothing further to do with its operations," Gorsky wrote.
"It strains the imagination that many months after he left Princeton, Jeff Barnett would be a 'puppet master' controlling the actions of a city police department. Furthermore, by Dr. Hurlston's own admission he did not contest the criminal charge, which is telling."
In the complaint, Hurlston said the Princeton police department's harassment over the next year included numerous threats that he would be arrested if he "showed his face" in Collin County, for telephoning and texting his wife and her new boyfriend.
As for his wife, Hurlston's complaint states that she had "waxed hot and cold" since January 2012, going along with him as long as he provided money for her support, including paying for a photography course in Paris, France.
Hurlston is seeking unspecified damages and attorney fees. He is represented by attorney James B. Doyle of Lake Charles, La.


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Morning Fix: NY-23 as 2012 litmus test?
The Iowa caucuses may be more than two years from now but a series of moves by potential Republican presidential contenders has turned a special election in New York's 23rd district into an early test of conservative bona fides.
In the last week three GOPers with an eye on 2012 -- former House speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.), Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin -- have weighed in on the race with Tpaw and Palin throwing their support behind Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman and Gingrich endorsing state Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava.
(Polling and conversations with those close to the contest on both sides suggest it is now a two-person race between Hoffman and Democrat Bill Owens with Scozzafava fading badly.)
Both Palin and Pawlenty cast the contest as a fight for the future direction of the Republican party in announcing their decisions to back Hoffman. Palin said her endorsement would send a message to GOP leaders of "no more politics as usual" while Pawlenty said that "we cannot send more politicians to Washington who wear the Republican jersey on the campaign trail, but then vote like Democrats in Congress."
Gingrich, for his part, insisted in an e-mail to the Fix that the special election was not -- and should not be interpreted as -- a conservative litmus test, and explained that his endorsement of Scozzafava was entirely about respecting local party leaders.
Gingrich noted that Hoffman had run against Scozzafava for the Republican nomination and lost at a series of county meetings; he warned of the "grave danger of establishing the precedent that every faction can run a third party candidate if they lose a primary or a convention," adding that such a strategy is "the road to re-elect [President] Obama and make [Nancy] Pelosi speaker for life."
With conservative blogs -- led by Redstate.com -- casting the Nov. 3 special election as a referendum on the state of the party and so many would-be presidential aspirants weighing in, however, it's hard not to see the race through the 2012 lens.
Conservatives dominate the nominating process (as liberals do on the Democratic side) and these are the sort of moments that a relative unknown like Pawlenty will use over the next 18 months to convince voters in places like Iowa and New Hampshire that he is one of them.
Not all of the names mentioned as 2012 candidates are getting involved in NY-23, however. Eric Fehrnstrom, a spokesman for Mitt Romney, said that the former Massachusetts governor has no plans to weigh in for either Hoffman or Scozzafava. Ditto for former governor Mike Huckabee (Ark.), Sen. John Thune (S.D.) and Rep. Mike Pence (Ind.), according to spokespeople for each man.
John Weaver, a former senior adviser to Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) two presidential bids, called the New York special a "proving ground" for aspiring presidential candidates. "[It's] all aimed at the 2012 Iowa caucus and trying to influence some key activists around the country," he added.
Tuesday's Fix Picks:
1. Bob McDonnell up double digits in WaPo govs poll.
2. Grunwald on California on the rise; and the Calitics rebuttal.
3. Reihan Salam eviscerates Charlie Crist.
4. Fred Malek's top 10 Republican leaders.
5. John Irving's latest, reviewed.
Deeds Drastically Cuts Ad Spending: State Sen. Creigh Deeds (D) is spending just over $400,000 on ads in the final week of his campaign for Virginia governor, according to sources familiar with the buy, a massive cutback from his disbursements on television over past weeks. Rumors that Deeds was struggling with cash flow have been rampant in recent days, and the $700,000 reduction in ad spending between last week and this one is a sure sign that things are not going well for the Democrat. According to a source familiar with the Deeds ad buy, the Democrat is only running 400 gross ratings points in the Washington, D.C. media market -- meaning that the average viewer will only see a Deeds ad four times in a week. (Typically campaigns like to close with 2,000 or so points on TV in a key market like Washington.) Word of Deeds's money problems comes less than 24 hours after a new Washington Post poll showed him trailing former state attorney general Bob McDonnell (R) by 11 points.
RGA Pounds Corzine: One week out from the New Jersey governor's election, the Republican Governors Association is now up with 15-second ads they hope will make a final case against Gov. Jon Corzine (D). "The Jon Corzine record -- highest taxes in the nation, highest unemployment in the region," says the ad's narrator. The ad then quickly touts former U.S. attorney Chris Christie's (R) plan for economic recovery -- "now that's a plan," intones the narrator. Fifteen second ads tend not be less effective than their 30-second brethren but the cost of running statewide television in New Jersey is such that the RGA is spending all that it can. Polling -- aside from a seeming outlier survey released Monday by Suffolk University -- shows the race as within the margin of error. The critical question one week out is how much vote share independent candidate Chris Daggett will take. The higher Daggett goes, the better chance Corzine has at pulling off a stunning come-from-behind victory.
Lawton Drops in WI-Gov: Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Barb Lawton (D) dropped out of the 2010 governor's race on Monday, leaving Democrats without a serious candidate -- for the moment. In an e-mail sent to supporters, Lawton cited "very personal reasons" for her decision to leave the race. Speculation immediately turned to Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett who,according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, is the preferred choice of the White House to pick up the Democratic mantle. Barrett, a former congressman, ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2002 but has won solid reviews for his stewardship of Milwaukee and has drawn national attention for breaking up an assault at the state fair and incurring significant injuries in the process. Some national Democrats remain skeptical that Barrett would run and speculated that Rep. Ron Kind (D), who surprisingly ruled out a bid last month, might take another look at the contest. National Republicans believe Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker is a star candidate although former representative Mark Neumann is also in the primary race.
Click It!: Massachusetts state Sen. Scott Brown (R) is a long-shot to beat Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, the likely Democratic nominee, in the race to replace the late Ted Kennedy in the Senate, but this video -- centered on Coakley's response that she has a sister who lives oversees when questioned about her foreign policy experience -- is a keeper.
DGA Moves to Strengthen Ritter: The Democratic Governors Association is moving to shore up embattled Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter -- helping to finance new television ads in the state that tout the incumbent's accomplishments including attracting a wind turbine factory to the state. "Bill Ritter: Strong leadership that has Colorado on the move," says the ad's narrator. Ritter, who was elected in a landslide three years ago, has struggled to maintain that popularity since coming into office. Democrats acknowledge that he is in serious electoral jeopardy in this purple state although Republicans seem headed to a feisty primary between former representative Scott McInnis and state Sen. Josh Penry.
Say What?: "They know what they're against. I'm still waiting to hear what they're for." -- Vice President Joe Biden throws a little rhetorical heat Republicans way during a fundraiser for Ohio Reps. John Boccieri and Zack Space.
Chris Cillizza
October 27, 2009; 5:05 AM ET
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Don't forget about David Harmer (R) in CA-10. He could pull off an upset on Nov. 03.
Posted by: Bubbette1 | October 27, 2009 10:24 PM | Report abuse
Snowbama, the difference between dissenting against a Democrat and dissenting against a Republican is that the Democrat doesn't care a rat's hairy patoot about your dissent, whereas the Republican will take your name and sic an antiterrorist surveillance unit on you and your family.
Somebody asked about the social makeup of the voters in NY23. Per Congressional Quarterly, in 2008 they went narrowly for Obama and about 2/3 for (incumbent Republican) McHugh. I grew up there, and it's very socially conservative, but dependent on government assistance and state/federal jobs (prisons ar popular); opportunities are very thin on the ground. Much of the area is dependent on tourism, from both the US and Canada. The region is predominately white, Catholic, and educated only through HS/some college, excepting some diversity at Fort Drum and post-bac educational levels at Potsdam and Plattsburgh. In terms of party machinery, the Democrats have never been able to get it together; the Republicans have a long-standing lock on local politics. Mostly, I think people up there are afraid of change, because for at least the past 20 or so years, "change" has meant negative changes in their lives.
Posted by: northgs | October 27, 2009 2:37 PM | Report abuse
"Both Palin and Pawlenty cast the contest as a fight for the future direction of the Republican party in announcing their decisions to back Hoffman. Palin said her endorsement would send a message to GOP leaders of "no more politics as usual"
Palin's endorsement seems just a little divisional.
All I can remember is the article by Andrew Sullivan, "The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin: A Round-Up" in July of 2009...interesting articles. It actually list the lies told by Palin. (there were a lot!!!) It was thorough and an assessment made by fact check...
The definition of rogue is:
1 : vagrant, tramp
2 : a dishonest or worthless person : scoundrel
3 : a mischievous person : scamp
4 : a horse inclined to shirk or misbehave
5 : an individual exhibiting a chance and usually inferior biological variation
It fits well. Face book is for SOCIAL networking not policy development from someone unemployed....
"amazed at the way a segment of voters is EASILY SWAYED to crash from one political mind-set to another."
I still love this country...
Posted by: lindarc | October 27, 2009 2:24 PM | Report abuse
40% of the country self-identify as conservatives. 20% self-id as liberals
Hate to be the bearer but that does not translate to 40% voting for the far-right cavemen the GOP is planning to run.
Don't count yer chickens.
Posted by: GoldAndTanzanite | October 27, 2009 1:59 PM | Report abuse
The name of President Obama's "CHANGE" is Socialism...
And you expect this to alarm anyone?
Bet you think you're the first to use the S-word. You're not. In fact you guys have long ago taken all the sting out of it.
Posted by: GoldAndTanzanite | October 27, 2009 1:56 PM | Report abuse
drivl and other Libs who can't count past ten with their sox on, know how many stormed the mall in dissent, previously the highest form of patriotism, now a sign of mental abberation.
All the lib minions are headed out of town on a rail next week. the story will be the sharp rebuke to socialism and weak leadership. the next domino to fall will be the "public option".
Wait, I forgot that with the cooling, it is now called climate change.
I mean insurance change of course. make that insurance choice. Can we weave hope in there somewhere?
Posted by: snowbama | October 27, 2009 1:00 PM | Report abuse
The ultimate in stupid. What a total waste of taxpayer's money.
'Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) and 75 other House Republicans have introduced a resolution "expressing gratitude and appreciation to the individuals and families who participated in the Taxpayer March on Washington on September 12, 2009" -- and claiming that the Tea Party march drew many, many times more protesters than it actually did.'
Posted by: drindl | October 27, 2009 12:52 PM | Report abuse
Check out the Doug Hoffman ad the Fix mentioned was put out by the DNC. It is *very* effective, esp. for a Democrat.
Posted by: rickedelson | October 27, 2009 12:44 PM | Report abuse
the government option:
U.S. taxpayers spent about $32 subsidizing the cost of the typical Amtrak passenger in 2008, about four times the rail operator's estimate, according to a private study.
Posted by: snowbama | October 27, 2009 12:43 PM | Report abuse
This country can't survive if you're as childish as the Democrats: For the last few decades, we've had an "adult" party that deals in the real world and a "children's party" that promises everyone everything for nothing. Unfortunately, the "adult party" has been acting a little too much like a 40 year old going through a mid-life crisis for the last few years.
Posted by: snowbama | October 27, 2009 12:37 PM | Report abuse
This is one Mr. Deeds who apparently isn't going to town. The collapse of the Democratic campaign for governor of Virginia speaks volumes - chapters, anyway - about what the body politic is trying to tell Barack Obama's Democrats.
They're learning, painfully, that campaigning without George W. Bush is baffling, frustrating and scary. Worse, it offers a preview of what the congressional campaigning will be like next year
Posted by: snowbama | October 27, 2009 12:34 PM | Report abuse
haha - 'paralysis' is a good word. Elected republicans are afraid of GOVERNING and LEGISLATING because that to the base is a sign of 'socialism.' This is what happens when you allow a cult to take over a party:
'In June, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) promised that an alternative health care reform bill would be introduced that Republicans could rally behind. "We're putting the final touches on our bill," Boehner said in July. Then, the chairman of the House GOP Health Care Solutions Group, Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO), admitted that the House GOP leadership was unlikely to introduce a bill. Now, The Hill reports that "some House Republicans are growing frustrated that their leaders have not yet introduced a healthcare reform alternative":
Rep. Tom Price (Ga.), chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC), revealed the schism within his party late last week.
"There's a difference of opinion over what ought to be the strategy from a political standpoint on this issue. I happen to believe we ought to have a bill.
One House Republican who spoke on the condition of anonymity said, "The fact is, [GOP leaders] are very concerned with doing anything that the base would interpret as 'Democrat-lite' or 'socialized-lite' … which is forcing a paralysis."
Posted by: drindl | October 27, 2009 12:34 PM | Report abuse
endorsement of the kooks on the left - Kos, ACORN, drivl et al, is the kiss of death.
I don't suppose Repubs will allow the loons to choose our candidates for us any longer. that is certainly a losing strategery.
Posted by: snowbama | October 27, 2009 12:24 PM | Report abuse
interesting how the winger self-identifies as 'aunt pittypat' -- a racist confederate southerner in the movie Gone with the Wind.
Posted by: drindl | October 27, 2009 12:14 PM | Report abuse
That piece in Forbes truly shreds Charlie Crist! It's devastating. It's not, though, the type of piece that's got legs b/c one has to really get into it before its cumulative impact becomes apparent.
Aren't you glad you're on the reporting side? Whatever some of your detractors in the comments section say, it's nothing compared to the vitriol that gets thrown over politicians.
Posted by: sverigegrabb | October 27, 2009 12:05 PM | Report abuse
I see the progressive paid blogger brigade is out in force today.
40% of the country self-identify as conservatives. 20% self-id as liberals. That's according to a Gallup study of thousands released yesterday.
Guess the Proggies are running scared. :)
Posted by: auntpittypat | October 27, 2009 12:00 PM | Report abuse
Sure Malek is a real credible character when it comes to making lists.
"When Richard M. Nixon wondered in 1971 whether his efforts were being undermined by a "Jewish cabal" operating inside the Bureau of Labor Statistics, he personally directed Fred Malek to compile a list of high-ranking Jews working there. Malek's report on the inquiry concluded:
13 of the 35 fit the other demographic criterion we discussed.
During the following two months, two of the Jews in question were demoted.
He also gave G.W Bush a real job.
Probably worth $250 million, at least according to a 1999 profile in the Washingtonian. Malek was also one of the financial backers who purchased the Texas Rangers baseball franchise and put George W. Bush in charge.
Posted by: MerrillFrank | October 27, 2009 11:44 AM | Report abuse
so with all of this chatter about NY23rd, no one has mentioned what the voters of the district are like, and how they voted in '08. Palin endorsing anyone just might drive the voters towards the dems even more, how well or bad did Palin do in NY? Did she even campaign there? I know she was in NYC letting the Pakastani ambassador 'hug' her, but did she ever campaign there? Deb Snoff(spelling?)... is from the district and has a pretty good idea of how to be a successful republican in a moderate district. Conservatives don't know how to spell "moderate", yet they think their world view is the most popular.
Posted by: katem1 | October 27, 2009 11:09 AM | Report abuse
On Malek's list are quite a few who have never been elected to anything, or never will be again, a couple with dismal records, and one County Executive from Wisconsin.
Color me unimpressed.
Posted by: drindl | October 27, 2009 10:49 AM | Report abuse
it would not surprise me if corzine himself drummed up the scam that netted his cronies billions...
over and over again...
corzine is from the greed is good crowd...
how else did he make millions...
Posted by: DwightCollins | October 27, 2009 10:47 AM | Report abuse
"that doing away with Medicare, takeover of Car industry, and banks, and education, and installing open Borders where entering our county ILLEGALLY is no longer a crime"
'Democrats doing away with Medicare...' It's tragic how easy it is for the cynical rightwing pols to fool the hopelessly illiterate and uninformed in this country.
Posted by: drindl | October 27, 2009 10:42 AM | Report abuse
Ok we have another contender in the Republican comic relief category...
"the Tea Party Express is coming and it is going to run you over..."
So which is it, never a majority party again without "appealing to minorities, especially hispanics" or a crowd of older white bigots with tea bags tied on their hats carrying "we want our country back" signs. Republicans, whither goest thou?
Posted by: shrink2 | October 27, 2009 10:40 AM | Report abuse
Mark in Austin, I know exactly what you mean about Deeds' poor command.
He is a weak speaker, doesn't make his points well and has either too little energy or too much. He sometimes looks sad, mad or lost. He hasn't run a good campaign against the super confident Governor Goodhair-in-training, and he hasn't been able to inspire the cadre of Democrat die hards enough to get them to the polls in sufficient number.
Posted by: margaretmeyers | October 27, 2009 10:37 AM | Report abuse
Good posts, jaxas. You are absolutely correct that in an age of globalization, when we need more government -- to protect public safety, for instance, from the influx of foreign foods, drugs and products, and to protect American citizens from the predations of enormously wealthy multi-nationals and to regulated the increasingly complex global financial arena -- what we are getting from so-called 'conservatives' is a cry to dismantle the very structures we need most to survive.
They are offering nothin--only a vaccuum, a void, where leadership, ideas and solutions should be.
Posted by: drindl | October 27, 2009 10:36 AM | Report abuse
Heaven Forbid if the "Hard Right Wing" gains control of the Republican Party. Oh Yeah! We need more Kennedy-McCain Bills, Lindsay Graham and Olympia Snowe preaching AMNESTY FOR ALL---Public Option, to speak for the Party.
The above Liberal Democrats on this blog are scared to death that the Conservatives and Moderates and Independents will kick out all the radical left members of the Democratic Party...which just happens to be the first 50 MOST Liberal VOTING U.S. Senators. Surprise, they are all Democrats until you even get to the name of Olympia Snowe.
Consider, the country is being led by FIFTY Left-Wing extremists who are listening..but can't hear or understand--that doing away with Medicare, takeover of Car industry, and banks, and education, and installing open Borders where entering our county ILLEGALLY is no longer a crime. This is not the promised change Americans want or for which they voted.
The name of President Obama's "CHANGE" is Socialism....plain and simple. So please, No more advice from Liberal Dems who are so concerned about the Conservatives exposing the truth of what is actually --going on and look out--the Tea Party Express is coming and it is going to run you over...with truth and votes.
Posted by: passonfirstdown | October 27, 2009 10:32 AM | Report abuse
I'd argue that the Deeds general campaign looks a lot like the Moran primary campaign. This was going to be a tough year for VA Democrats in any event. Kaine barely won election running as the co-pilot of a wildly popular governor.
The thesis was overplayed to the point it became the Deeds campaign. It'll be interesting to see how the legislative races in VA turn out. Hopefully, the McDonnell administration will turn out to be more fiscally competent than Gilmore.
Posted by: FairlingtonBlade | October 27, 2009 10:25 AM | Report abuse
It was actually Mark Levin that first promoted Hoffman, reaching millions, then Palin, then Pawlenty.
Give Mark a little credit.... Hoffman's coffers were rising as a result of his support and having Hoffman on his radio show. Then, Palin announced and Hoffman's coffers rose even further (skyrocketed, no doubt). Pawlenty offered even more credence to the man.
Good for them.
Posted by: notbuyingit | October 27, 2009 10:24 AM | Report abuse
It was actually Mark Levin that first promoted Hoffman, reaching millions, then Palin, then Pawlenty.
Give Mark a little credit.... Hoffman's coffers were rising as a result of his support and having Hoffman on his radio show. Then, Palin announced and Hoffman's coffers rose even further (skyrocketed, no doubt). Pawlenty offered even more credence to the man.
Good for them.
Posted by: notbuyingit | October 27, 2009 10:22 AM | Report abuse
Malek's list has McDonnell as the #1 possibility of running for President. Are you serious? His thesis debacle should automatically disqualify him for any office higher than Governor, and if Deeds had a campaign manager with half a brain they would have smoked McDonnell. Also he has Bobby Jindal on that list. That guy had his ten minutes of fame and was found to be seriously lacking.
If I were a Republican I would look at Maleks' list and cringe. If that list is the best the GOP can offer in the next two elections or so than they are in serious trouble.
Posted by: AndyR3 | October 27, 2009 10:15 AM | Report abuse
There is a fatal flaw in conservatism. And it has to do with having a governing philosophy. The fatal flaw is that the underlying founding stone of conservatism is limiting or reducing government at a time when the demand for government services is increasing.
There is a sort of inevitable algorithm to all of this. This experiment began at a time when America--and the rest of the world for that matter--was simple and agrarian in nature. Government power was easy to limit and control. But, it did not take long for American leaders to discover that the velocity with which change was occurring was far outstripping their ability to meet the demands of a growing, prosperous citizenry.
The Supreme Court was the final arbiter on just how government should react to such growing demand for public services when the Marshall Court ruled that the so-called "enumerated powers" were insufficient to meet that demand. Thus in decisions like Marbury v. Madison and McCulloch v. Maryland, the Court ruled that expanded powers to execute the powers implid by the enumerated powers were constitutional; thus, the Implied Powers doctrine.
This brings us to the fatal flaw in conservatism. They reject the Implied Powers doctrine i favor of the far more limited enumerated powers. This, in today's fast-paced, technologically innovative world, would render America an obsolete, quirky, third world country.
Little wonder that conservatives tend to fail in government. It does little good to have this burgeoning capitalist market economy absent a sufficiently strong government to regulate its worst excesses. Conservatives have never understood this.
Posted by: jaxas | October 27, 2009 10:13 AM | Report abuse
Ah, who cares what Gingrich thinks? Everyone knows he's a RINO.
Posted by: nodebris | October 27, 2009 10:13 AM | Report abuse
Re Fix Pick#4: I find it hilarious that Fred has to mention Rubio because they "need an Hispanic leader" in their party.
Why is there even an open seat for Rubio to run for? Because Martinez quit. He quit because he was too moderate to be allowed to stay in the Republican Party. Crist was going to run to the right of Martinez, and now he's got Rubio on HIS right.
Classic example of how the GOP wants minority candidates, and minorities to vote for them, but not so much as to give an inch on ideology. Definition of a small-tent party.
Posted by: mikenmidland | October 27, 2009 10:07 AM | Report abuse
Two words for you: Michael Steele.
Posted by: mnteng | October 27, 2009 10:04 AM | Report abuse
I guess what I am struck by is how little any of this red state-blue state, right-left, liberal-conservative cluture war nonsense has any meaning to our lives.
Look. I remember in 1980 how the right thought Reagan's win was going to upend all of those "socialist" programs they loved to hate--social security, medicare, aid to education, the EPA, etc, etc. Yet, Reagan found to his own dismay that he could effect very little change and ultimately ended up pretty much governing as a centrist.
In 1994, when the republicans swept botyh houses, the right thought finally it was the end of the old liberal infrastructure. Yet by 1995, it was painfully clear that even control of both houses could not overcome the anger of the American people at their attempts to do away with a single department of government (Education) and shut down the federal government to get there. It diodn't happen because what conservatives do not understand is that notwithstanding how people answer a poll question on whether they describe themselves as liberal or conservative, when it comes to government, they are pretty darn liberal inside.
Now here they are again insisting theat if they win this irrelevant little NY district it will point to a new desire on the part of the American people for putting conservatives back in power. It never seems to occur to them that the voters elect politicians to actually govern. They proceed under the false assumption that they are elcted to dismantle government.
Posted by: jaxas | October 27, 2009 9:58 AM | Report abuse
NewsBusters -- WaPo: 'It Is Now a Two-Person Race Between Hoffman and Democrat Bill Owens With Scozzafava Fading Badly'
Posted by: StewartIII | October 27, 2009 9:52 AM | Report abuse
Regardless of the outcome in New York's 23rd, the big winner is Newt Gingrich and the big loser is Pawlenty.
The national GOP infrastructure has not been fractured by the tea-baggers, and Newt knows this. In big party politics, loyalty can (and probably should) eclipse ideology; it's the only way to build a broad enough coalition to win national elections (assuming hard-right extremists don't rig those electronic voting machines that no one is talking about these days...)
• Deposed Honduras President Manuel Zaleya confirms the essence what unjustly targeted citizens worldwide -- including this journalist -- have been reporting for years...
...military, secret security and intelligence services of many nations, including the U.S., silently assault and torture "targeted individuals," including those regarded as "dissenters" or slandered as undesirables, with debilitating, health-degrading, "slow-kill" electromagnetic microwave and laser radiation weapons systems -- reported to include a nationwide installation disguised as cell towers.
OR (if link is corrupted): http://NowPublic.com/scrivener RE: "Gov't Tortures" and "Gestapo USA."
Posted by: scrivener50 | October 27, 2009 9:50 AM | Report abuse
In re Marco Rubio, (#4) Fred Malek says,
"We desperately need in our own party a young Hispanic leader. We cannot again be a majority party without better understanding and appealing to minorities, especially Hispanics."
This makes me laugh. I don't know why exactly, the phrasing, the obvious, the several ironies. It will stand as my Republican joke of the day until someone says something even funnier.
Posted by: shrink2 | October 27, 2009 9:50 AM | Report abuse
Much better analysis of NY-23 than the poorly thought out post on the CfG poll. Thanks -- that's why I still come back.
And thanks to AndyR3 for a good follow-up.
Malek's list of Rs is also worthwhile.
Posted by: mnteng | October 27, 2009 9:40 AM | Report abuse
I think Gingrich is right. I hope exactly half of Republicans believe him. In NY-23 next week, in primaries next year, and in choosing a nominee in 2012.
I hope the Conservative Party runs its own viable candidate in a record number of congressional races next year, as opposed to endorsing the Republican. Who knows how many seats the Dems might pick up?
Posted by: mikenmidland | October 27, 2009 9:38 AM | Report abuse
"The public option is so bad and unpopular, ninny peloony is renaming it."
Read the polls lately? Even in its "public option" incarnation it was polling way past the midway mark. People want alternatives and know that private insurance has no interest in providing them. Maybe you like your products to come from monopolies, but some of us prefer products developed in a competitive atmosphere.
Speaking of a competitive atmosphere, this intramural fight in a small Republican district in upstate NY is simply that. That Palin et al have decided to flex their reactionary muscle there is telling, but not necessarily predictive. Palin may be popular with the base, but on a national level, she's seen as a divisive figure careening around creating havoc. Gingrich represents the wing of the GOP that actually likes to win elections, not spoil them.
Posted by: Koko3 | October 27, 2009 9:36 AM | Report abuse
Also, this big loser is helping Hoffman. It's like everyone who lost the last election is in NY23 'helping' Hoffman.
"The newest ad from Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate in the NY-23 special election, stars none other than former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN), a presidential candidate from the 2007/2008 Republican primaries."
Posted by: drindl | October 27, 2009 9:18 AM | Report abuse
pamela is absolutely right here:
'Electing a conservative to a seat held previously by a Republican, in a heavily Republican district (the districts in upstate NY are gerrymandered beyond belief) especially in an off-year election where turnout really matters simply proves - nothing.'
Hoffman gets this huge infusion of cash from the fat cats at Club for Growth and floods a small rightwing district. His primary opponent gets trashed by her own party. What it all adds up to is zero in terms of a trend.
Posted by: drindl | October 27, 2009 9:09 AM | Report abuse
@MM: Creigh is just running an awful campaign and Mac is running a great one.
Had Brian Moran been the Dem nominee, Brian would be 11 ahead.
Checklist. Five checks.
Pawlenty in 2012. Check.
Phalin in 2012. Check.
GOP comeback shout out. Check.
Free ad for extremist Hoffman. Check.
No positive mention of our 44th President. Check.
Posted by: broadwayjoe | October 27, 2009 8:39 AM | Report abuse
The public option is so bad and unpopular, ninny peloony is renaming it.
Posted by: snowbama | October 27, 2009 8:34 AM | Report abuse
The NY-23rd district should definitly not be taken as representative of NY as a whole or our country as a whole. It has a large Army base in its borders and is heavily republican. However, this election can be used as a bell-weather for what is to come in the GOP, and I don't know as a liberal which winner will serve the democratic party better.
If Owens wins, I think the Democratic party can and will claim victory of a VERY red seat in congress which they may be able to hold if Owens can play the moderate as well as he has so far. It will also tramp down some of the talk that the GOP is gaining steam. If they're smart the GOP power structure will use it as a lesson that the party most present a unified front or it will get creamed even in solidly republican areas.
The flip-side is that if Hoffman wins, it will embolden the far-right of the party, and could create a shift in the power structure to a more hardline conservative platform. This would have disasterous consequences for the GOP, IMO. Which as die-hard democrat may end up being more beneficial in the long run.
The key to this election as any special election will be turn-out in places like
Watertown, Ogdensburg, and even Wanakena (beautiful little town in the Adirondack Park where they had one of the debates that Hoffman skipped).
We know the loyal GOP and Democratic party foot soldiers (highly involved in the party itself) will vote for their candidate (I would say 20% each). If the remaining 60% split down the middle to Owens and Hoffman than Owens wins it. If Hoffman pulls in the lionshare of that 60% and maybe pulls a few party loyalists away then we may have a race on our hands.
Posted by: AndyR3 | October 27, 2009 8:14 AM | Report abuse
If Hoffman wins in NY-23, and Republican activists believe this "proves" that only a "true" conservative can prevail, I think they're deluding themselves. They should ask themselves if a candidate like Hoffman could win state-wide? Do they truly think that the reason there are so few Republicans left in congressional districts in the north east is because those formerly incumbent Republicans were not conservative enough?
Electing a conservative to a seat held previously by a Republican, in a heavily Republican district (the districts in upstate NY are gerrymandered beyond belief) especially in an off-year election where turnout really matters simply proves - nothing.
Posted by: -pamela | October 27, 2009 7:33 AM | Report abuse
margaret, I am not there, in VA, but it does seem as if CD projects incompetence and McD projects relative command. That would explain a significant part of the "change of heart". Voters like me will look for the one most likely to keep the state's business operating, even if the candidate has weird beliefs about women. The low turnout for statewide elections explains the rest. Key loyal D constituencies staying home in larger proportion than key loyal R constituencies in non=presidential years is not a new phenomenon. It is not a phenomenon at all.
Posted by: mark_in_austin | October 27, 2009 7:32 AM | Report abuse
Thanks for the link to the "Time" sunshine article on CA. It was upbeat to the point of boosterism; nevertheless, it provided a counterweight to the gloomy news we hear from CA on a regular basis.
Because few parts of the nation could afford an R split and still have one of the R fragments whip a D, either NY-23 bodes ill for Rs; or else it is meaningless to most of the nation. If Rs think McC lost because he did not run far enough to the right they will mirror those Ds who actually think when they lose it is b/c their candidate did not run to the left. Seizing the center is the key to national electoral victory for either party. That is self-evident, except to liberals and conservatives.
Posted by: mark_in_austin | October 27, 2009 7:23 AM | Report abuse
I'm sorry to hear about the trend in Virginia. I am amazed at the way a segment of voters is easily swayed to crash from one political mind-set to another. I guess the trick is that the mind isn't doing much work, so advertising and "good repositioning" makes this segment say baaaah and trot off after a candidate they find attractive.
chaujohnathon, just what rock does your greatness lie under?
Posted by: margaretmeyers | October 27, 2009 6:28 AM | Report abuse
leading this world in the right direction, will benefit amerca to a large extent.
liberty first, religious liberty second, hillary (aka obama) got it wrong.
they just don't have a clue on how to advance america. they don't know what america's greatness lies under.
Posted by: chaujohnthan | October 27, 2009 5:53 AM | Report abuse
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Although we probably won't know who the winner of this election is until late tonight (as the polls are still indicating a very tight race), we can watch as the electoral votes add up, which, of course, is how the president is actually elected. The debate over a popular vote vs an electoral vote has been going on for more than 200 years.
The electoral college was put in place by the framers of our Constitution who decided that the states should do the voting, not the people. At that time, the United States was simply a union of individual states that had come together to resolve the many issues of establishing a democracy, but the thought of being a single nation was not yet in the consciousness of many. Eventually, a compromise was struck so that voting for president would take place state by state, so that each one could have its say. Each state was given a number of electoral votes equal to the combined total number of senators and members of the house of representatives it had, usually giving the most populous states the largest number of electorates. The popular vote–your vote–is what guides the electoral college to cast its votes. We can still see this separate state idea being played out today when we hear of red states, blue states and, of course, "swing states," those in which candidates campaign so heavily because swing states can tip the balance of the electoral college vote.
Do you know when the last time a president was elected that did not have the majority of the popular vote? It was in the year 2000 when George W. Bush defeated Al Gore, who had a very narrow lead in the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote 271 to 266.
Who will come out ahead in 2012? We'll hopefully know that tomorrow!


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In 2007, legendary singer Etta James was booked for the PAETEC Jazz Festival in downtown Baltimore. I interviewed her a few weeks before the show -- but she later had to back out due to health problems. Here is part of the interview, which was never published before. Apparently, when James used to play Baltimore back in the '50s and '60s, she was quite the target.
Etta, do you have any memories of Baltimore from back in the day?
I used to go to Baltimore at least two or three times a year, at the Royal Theatre. Remember that theater? Now that was a bum theater. Everybody that ever went there would be terrified to go. 'Where are you working?' 'Oh, I'm working at the Royal Theatre in Baltimore. And then I'd go to the Howard Theatre in Washington.' There was one more -- we called them the funky three.
They were the funkiest theaters because people would come in there with pickles, with olives, with boiled eggs and get ready to throw all kinds of stuff at you. And the thing is, they used to throw the stuff. It wasn't heartbreaking to people like me or Sam Cooke. It was the older entertainers that didn't understand. 'Why are they going to be throwing popcorn at me?'
Everybody knew, 'Oh boy, here's Baltimore.' When I pulled up, I knew the vegetable stores were going to make a little money that week. Tomatoes -- it didn't matter. If they'd get you really good, like, get you in the face, or on your body, I would just laugh about it.
Baltimore was always a really raunchy city, compared to Washington D.C. But in Baltimore, I would just be waiting for 'em. I'd say, 'Well my hair's blonde but tonight it's going to be tomato red when we leave here.'
Do you care what other people say about you?
Really, truthfully, I don't. When you see me on stage, you think I'm cool, because to me, I'm cool. I stand back and say, 'Now wait a minute, am I standing cool enough? Am I sitting on this stool really cool, or am I going to fall off?' Then they'd really have a show.
People say you put on a better show sitting in a chair than most performers do standing up.
I had to sit and sing for five years. To sit and sing, when you're a really emotional person like I am, that's not cool for me. I'm not standing, the blood is not rushing from my toes to my head and back out to my arms and my fingers. If I'm standing up, I can feel the blood pumping. But if I'm sitting down, I just feel like a chump. Here I am, sitting my fat self up here, and I shouldn't even be up here. Now, I don't have to. I can drag my chair over, and get up on it halfway. You know how you sit on a halfway stool -- you sit on the side. That's being extra cool, I guess.


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The IFSC is an international non-governmental non-profit organisation whose main objectives are the direction, regulation, promotion, development and furtherance of climbing competitions around the world.
The IFSC is a member of GAISF, IWGA, ARISF and ASOIF, and has its sport in the Olympic programme. It is also recognised by the International Paralympic Commitee.
The IFSC fosters links, networks, and friendly relations among its members, their climbers and officials.
The IFSC has committed itself to undertaking the following goals:
The last two decades have been a period of spectacular growth for both sport climbing and the organisation. Sport climbing has gained credibility not only as competitive sport, but also for its social values. The IFSC is a young and healthy Federation founded on modern sporting principles and values, cultivating them along with sport growth and development.
Sport Climbing was officially confirmed as an additional sport in the programme of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 during the IOC Session in Rio de Janeiro, August 2016, and was included as a medal sport in the Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018.
In October, in occasion of the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, the first Olympic medals have been given to Sport Climbing athletes
Sport Climbing is officially confirmed as an additional sport for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games by the IOC Session. Along with four other sports, including Baseball, Softball, Karate, and Surfing, Sport Climbing is accepted into the program of Tokyo 2020. The same year, Sport Climbing is added to the programme of the Buenos Aires 2018 youth Olympic Games
In September, Sport Climbing was officially proposed as a new sport for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games by the Tokyo 2020 Additional Event Programme Panel.
Sport Climbing was chosen by the IOC as part of the Sports Lab showcasing new sports at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China.
Thanks to the shortlist for the 2020 Olympic Games, the IFSC benefited from a major worldwide exposure and gains international support.
On July 4th, 2011 the IOC Executive Board decided to include sport climbing on the short-list (with seven other sports) as a possible new event for the 2020 Olympic Games. This was the start of a new millennium for Climbing.
The first IFSC Paraclimbing World Championships were organized within the program of the eleventh World Championships in July 2011. Climbers with and without a disability were fully involved in the event from the opening ceremony until the closing ceremony. Thirty-five athletes (30 men and 5 women) from eleven countries competed. The Paraclimbing World Championships now takes place every two years, parallel to the World Championships.
On February 12th, 2010, the IOC gave definitive recognition to the IFSC, officially welcoming it as part of the Olympic Family.
For the first time in 2010, IFSC Paraclimbing Cup series was organized. They took place in Ekaterinburg, (RUS), Val Daone (ITA) and Chiba (JPN). Thirty-eight climbers (26 men and 12 women) from Belarus, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Russia, and Spain took part at the competitions.
In 2008, the first IFSC Paraclimbing Cup was organized in Moscow, Russia, within the IFSC Bouldering and Speed World Cup event. Athletes with a visual impairment and with a physical disability from Belarus, Italy, Ukraine, and Russia took part in the competitions.
On January 27th, 2007, in Frankfurt, Germany 57 Federations founded the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC). The Statutes and By-laws, as well as the regulations of the new International Federation, were adopted unanimously. On April 28th, 2007, the AGFIS General Meeting accepted the IFSC as a new member. A few weeks later, the IWGA also accepted the IFSC, confirming climbing's place in the 2009 Kaoshiung World Games.
On December 10th, 2007, the IOC granted provisional recognition to the IFSC, welcoming sport climbing into the Olympic Movement.
The number of members has now reached 90 countries from five continents.
In 2006, the UIAA decided to end its governance of Competition Climbing and supported the creation of an independent International Federation to govern this sport.
The first International Paraclimbing Competition took place in Russia, Ekaterinburg, within the European Championships. Athletes with a visual impairment and with a physical disability from Belarus, Italy, Japan, and Russia took part in the competitions.
In 2005, Competition Climbing was added to events of the Duisburg World Games and the Asian Indoor Games to great fanfare.
The sport continued to grow with more than 45 countries regularly participating in official calendar events. The calendar included the World, Youth, and Continental Championships, the World Cups, the Continental circuits, as well as other high profile International competitions. It also sponsored promotional events for under-age kids (spiderkids) and amateurs. Today, more than 75 countries participate in climbing competitions held all over the world, with the World Championships and Youth Championships being the most popular events.
In 1998, Bouldering was officially introduced as a new climbing discipline. A test competition was organized dubbed the "Top Rock Challenge," and its success leads to the creation of the World Cup in 1999.
In 1997, a new structure, the ICC - International Council for Competition Climbing - was created inside the UIAA, in order to guarantee sufficient autonomy to the sport and to provide it with the tools required for growth and development.
In 1992, the first Youth World Championship took place in Basel, Switzerland. Large participation at the event demonstrated how popular Sport Climbing had become with the younger generation. It is now an annual event.
In 1991, the first World Championship was organized in Frankfurt, Germany, an event that now occurs every two years.
In the early 90s, several large events were organized in all the main arenas of Europe, as well as in Japan and the US. During these years, it was decided that International events would be run only on artificial walls, in order to eliminate any environmental impact.
At the International level, the French Federation and Paul Brasset lead a movement to convince the UIAA to officially recognize the competitive Sport Climbing circuit, which had grown substantially with the addition of the World Series in 1988 and the first World Cup in Speed and Lead in 1989. As a result, Brasset created a new organization within the UIAA (formed by the CEC and CICE) that was responsible for training officials (judges and forerunners) and creating competition rules.
The success was repeated the following year in 1986 when Arco di Trento became host to the second SportRoccia event. The final was won by French superstar Patrick Edlinger and his compatriot Catherine Destivelle. More than 10,000 people attended the finals, including seven European television stations, as well as many media operators.
The same year, the French Federation organized the first indoor event at a gymnasium in Vaulx-en-Velin, a suburb of Lyon. The potential future for Sport Climbing became clear as all climbers began to show interest in this new branch of their sport, even those who appeared reluctant at first.
In 1985, in the Olympic town of Bardonecchia, Italy, not far from Torino, Andrea Mellano, a member of the Academic Group of CAI, and Emanuele Cassarà, a well-known Italian sport journalist, gathered a group of the best climbers for an event called "SportRoccia" held at a natural crag in Valle Stretta. It was the first organized Lead competition, launching a new era of modern Sport Climbing. Thousands of spectators were amazed by the victory of German athlete Stefan Glowacz.
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When we reported Tuesday that Google Drive is here, and you can install it "right now," some of our readers were understandably frustrated that they couldn't, in fact, install it right away.
Some people who signed up were greeted with messages saying that their Google Drive wasn't "ready" yet, with the option to get an e-mail notification when Google had room to let them in. What we're hearing from readers on Twitter is that people who don't get into Drive immediately are rewarded for their patience within a few hours or a day. A handful report having had to wait a couple of days, but 24 hours seems to be the longest wait for the vast majority of folks.
I got in right away, after signing up within five minutes of the service being announced. I have two Google accounts, though, and to test out its availability, I tried to sign up with my second account late yesterday afternoon. Within about 20 hours, I was in. My colleagues are reporting getting in right away, or enduring waits of between 12 hours and a day. Google declined to tell us how many people have signed up and how many have gotten in. The service is rolling out "over the next several weeks," the company told us.
Users of the Google Apps service we've heard from are reporting quick, if not instant, turnarounds—although Google said Apps users still have to go through the same opt-in process as any other user, so it may just be luck.
In a Google Apps administration support page, Google says it is transitioning users' Google Documents list to Google Drive by early summer. The current "opt-in period" will be followed by a temporary opt-out period, and then a full transition of all Apps users to Drive for document storage. Drive appeared in the Google Apps control panel for all administrators on Tuesday, and users at organizations that are Apps customers will get access at the same rate as Google's non-business users. There's one exception to that—users who work for organizations that have chosen the slower, "scheduled release" track for Google Apps won't be able to opt in to Drive until the next batch of scheduled updates.


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Manager Joe Maddon stated that the original plans to have Edwin Jackson up for only one start may be changed. Maddon was impressed enough with Jackson to reconsider the notion of sending him back to AAA Durham. The most likely candidate to be replaced in the rotation is Doug Waechter who has struggled mightily this season. With an off-day on Monday before the team goes to New York for three games, Maddon will skip Waechter in the rotation and go with Scott Kazmir on Tuesday. Waechter was used out of the bullpen on Sunday against Texas. He is scheduled to return to the rotation next Saturday.
Notes: Jackson impresses Maddon [devilrays.com]


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June 17, 2013
The MITRE Corporation's Center for Advanced Aviation System Development is recruiting pilots for a study, conducted under a contract with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), evaluating proposed changes to runway standards at small airports.
The study will examine whether or not infrastructure standards, such as runway width and length, pavement markings, visual guidance systems and edge lighting, can be changed in order to accommodate satellite-based instrument approach procedures, such as Localizer Performance with Vertical Guidance (LPV) approaches, to those runways that don't currently support low-visibility procedures.
"Access to smaller airports is critical for business aviation," said Peter Korns, NBAA operations service group specialist. "But safety is the primary focus behind these change initiatives and we want to support research and development that will help determine any safety or performance risk factors."
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The five-hour research evaluation will take place at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona, FL and involves four hours of simulator time. Coordinators are looking for a representative sample of pilots across all age categories and certificate types (private, commercial and ATP) who can legally fly a Cessna 172 in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC). Although travel expenses will not be covered, pilots will be paid for their participation.
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Dir/scr: Justin Schwarz. US. 2012. 104mins
A ragtag re-enactment of the Lewis and Clark expedition is the backdrop for The Discoverers, the sweetly amusing tale of a dysfunctional modern family trying to work out its issues. Though it probably lacks the edge necessary to make much of a mark theatrically, this understated indie comedy with Griffin Dunne starring should at least open some doors for first time feature writer-director Justin Schwarz.
Writer-director Justin Schwarz finds enough bittersweet humour in the characters and situation to keep the film engaging.
Premiered at last month's Hamptons International Film Festival, the film has a decent chance of finding a US distributor but might be a tricky sell internationally.
Dunne plays Lewis Birch, a down-on-on-his-luck history professor and divorced dad. Lewis' plan to bond with his detached teenage kids - daughter Zoe (Madeleine Martin, from TV's Californication) and son Jack (Devon Graye, from American Horror Story) - during a trip to an academic conference is derailed when his mother dies and his estranged father (Arbitrage's Stuart Margolin) goes missing.
In pursuit of his own father, Lewis ends up dragging his children into a historical re-enactment trek following the path of early nineteenth century American Northwest explorers Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery expedition. Over the course of the trek, Lewis makes peace with his father and starts a tentative new relationship, Zoe hits puberty and comes to terms with her dad and Jack finds a girlfriend.
Writer-director Justin Schwarz (a partner in the project's New York production company Quadratic Media) finds enough bittersweet humour in the characters and situation to keep the film engaging but he doesn't give the story the kind of emotional bite that might have made it really poignant.
Dunne, the After Hours star who these days mostly produces and directs, is nicely bedraggled as Lewis and Martin stands out as the strong-willed but sensitive Zoe.
Production companies: Quadratic Media
Sales: Submarine Entertainment, www.submarine.com
Producers: Laura Kleger, Louise Lovegrove, Justin Schwarz
Executive producer: Bob Gosse
Director of photography: Christopher Blauvelt
Production designer: Kelly McGehee
Editor: Geraud Brisson
Costume designer: Kim Wilcox
Music: Aaron Mirman
Casting directors: Patricia DiCerto, Lois Drabkin
Website: www.discoverersmovie.com
Main cast: Griffin Dunne, Madeleine Martin, Cara Buono, Devon Graye, Stuart Margolin, John C McGinley


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Sunday, September 18, 2011
Me no speak-ah Christianese-ah
7 comments:
- Foxfier said...
I have to giggle-- basically, this boils down to a dialect difference.
You know, that thing that's supposed to be cherished and enshrined if it's based on geography instead of beliefs.
- September 18, 2011 at 11:44 AM
- Ilíon said...
That's certainly an entertaining way of looking at it.
Mind you, I grew up listening to that "dialect" ... and it has *always* irked me.
- September 18, 2011 at 11:52 AM
- Ilíon said...
"Oh, Thelma Mae! I just blesses my heart that said 'Hello, BethAnne Lou' to me just now."
"Well, BethAnne Lou, God placed a burden on my heart that you really just needed to be blessed today!"
- September 18, 2011 at 11:55 AM
- Ilíon said...
I recently finished reading three "space opera" type novels (bought at a bargain-basement discount store, to give you some idea of how well they sold), set about 11,000 years in the future (*) which contained some of this sort of silliness. Also, the silly man who wrote them foolishly assumed that well, of course, a future in which all men are Christians is going to be as socialistic as Star-Trek.
If it weren't that I like "space opera" and fantasy type novels (and that I dislike spending money for a book and then not reading it), I;d not have finished them. For example, had they been library books, the implicit socialism and the other silly utopianism would have been enough that I'd have returned them unread.
Near the end of the third novel, there was some half-serious grappling with serious questions.
(*) An 11,000 years in which all of humanity (**) are Christians ... and are "so Christian" that no one even sins anymore. The characters can parrot the line that "all men are sinners", but they don't understand it.
(**) except, as it turned out, a handful of rebels from the start of the period, who, their armed rebellion having failed, fled into Deep Space; and whose descendants never numbered more than 30 millions in all those years (for they were constantly at war with one another).
- September 18, 2011 at 12:16 PM
- Foxfier said...
Mind you, I grew up listening to that "dialect" ... and it has *always* irked me.
To the best of my knowledge, you don't fetishize "diversity." If anything, you seem to have a big thing for nonflowery speech.
Me, I find public professions of belief to be sort of like public displays of affection-- most of them seem to be more about who is observing than the one (or One) supposedly adored.
(heh, my captcha: "conversn")
- September 18, 2011 at 12:31 PM
- Ilíon said...
"Me, I find public professions of belief to be sort of like public displays of affection-- most of them seem to be more about who is observing than the one (or One) supposedly adored."
I agree, and especially about the public displays of affection.
- September 18, 2011 at 12:40 PM
- Ilíon said...
... public displays of affection --I mean the sort of thing that prompts others to say (or to wish that *someone* would say) "Get a room" -- are not about the alleged affection, they are about the display. They are for the "benefit" of the (generally unwilling) on-lookers; they are about making a claim of ownership to the other person.
- September 18, 2011 at 4:19 PM


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Twitter is great to network, but sometimes it annoys me. There are times that people don't get that they have 140 characters to Say something or loose out.
The biggest problem is this #FollowFriday. I will see a post like:
@joeschmoeb #Followfriday @name1 @name2 @name3 @name4
My question is: WHY? Who is this "Name 1"? Will I know this person will not Cyberstalk me?
Let's get some etiquette here, people. Give me a reason to follow and I'll start listening to you. For example, Paul RJ Muller, aka @Caffination, wrote this tweet:
caffination #followfriday #podcast Because you have to listen @norbtek, @nlma, @cc_chapman, @podcaststeve, @geekazine, @about12minutes
This is telling me these are the podcasts to listen to. Now I do have to admit, my podcast is in the list and I thank Paul for posting. Nonetheless, I know WHY I should be following these people.
I like Meat with my Potatoes. I like bread with butter. Therefore, I like #Followfriday with a reason. You have 140 characters to explain yourself. Make every character worth it.
That is all.


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Former LUNA MORTIS Singer Announces Return To Live Stage
Madison, Wisconsin-based vocalist Mary Zimmer — formerly of the band LUNA MORTIS (originally THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE) — has announced her long-anticipated return to the stage.
Zimmer will perform as METAL MARY AND THE HIRED GUNS — a special one-time event with a group of established musicians from the Wisconsin rock and metal scenes — on Saturday, October 13 at The Frequency in Madison.
2010 saw the breakup of the LUNA MORTIS, whose final album, "The Absence", was released via Century Media Records.
Mary's return to the stage is her first major live appearance after the dissolution of the acclaimed Madison metal outfit.
"I am hitting the stage to play with a band for the first time (other than guest appearances) since the breakup of LUNA MORTIS and I am incredibly excited to be sharing the stage with a group of amazing musicians," states Zimmer.
"There will be a lot of firsts at this show, including my first time playing in a formalized band with my sister, Emily Zimmer, on lead guitar. It's also the first time I will be playing and singing at the piano for a song or two in a live band setting.
"I am extremely excited for this event. Everyone in this band is at the absolute top of their game musically, and while it's a one-time show for us, it's going to be one of the most incredible shows we've ever played."
THE HIRED GUNS are:
Emily Zimmer (FREDDIE LEE BAND) – Guitar
Jon Liedtke (FACE OF RUIN, SHROUD OF DESPONDENCY) – Guitar
Jerry Hauppa (CONCENTRIC, NORTHLESS) – Guitar
Brian Van Wychen (WISFITS, ex-ONUS) – Drums
Additionally, a special guest appearance by Grace Meridan of the Chicago band CANDLELIT is planned.
Mary and Grace are both members of the international community of professional female singers, Eve's Apple.
Mary can be heard doing classical/operatic background vocals on the upcoming MOTIONLESS IN WHITE album "Infamous", which is due in November via Fearless Records. The album was produced by Jason Suecof, who was also responsible for production on the final LUNA MORTIS record, "The Absence".


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Every bird builds a special kind of nest. Some of these look neat, while others look messy. Wrens make tiny nests, while eagles form huge ones. But every nest is a safe, warm home for a family of birds. It's where they eat, sleep, and grow up. And when the baby birds are ready to fly the coop, it becomes a launching pad for their first flight. Think of the arms of Jesus as a warm, cozy nest where you can find rest from anything that seems hard or makes you feel bad. Do you get tired or worry a lot? Crawl into Jesus' nest. And let him teach you how to rest.
Click-er: Bird's Nest
Whenever you see, touch, or think about a bird's nest, let your heart find rest in this lesson as it clicks and sticks:
I find rest in his nest.


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M. Night Shyamalan is developing a new event series for Fox, the network announced Tuesday at the Television Critics Association winter TV previews.
The drama, Wayward Pines, is inspired by Blake Crouch's bestselling novel Pines and follows Secret Service agent Ethan Burke as he tracks down two missing agents in a rural Idaho town. But as Ethan becomes more involved in the mysteries of Wayward Pines, Idaho, he moves farther away from everything he once knew. The Twin Peaks-esque thriller comes from a script from Chad Hodge and will be executive-produced by Shyamalan, Chad Hodge, Donald De Line and Ashwin Rajan.
Get all the scoop from Fox at the TCAsIn addition to Wayward Pines , Fox has signed a development deal for Blood Brothers from The Pacific's Bruce C. McKenna. Blood Brothers will tell the true story of an 1861 military class torn apart by the Civil War. Though they find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict, the former West Point classmates never lose their love for each other. McKenna will write and executive-produce the event series alongside Gary Randall and Timothy Scott Bogart."With top-notch auspices and feature-quality production plans, Wayward Pines and Blood Brothers represent exactly the kind of high-impact, 10- to 12-part events we set out to develop when we entered the limited series business," Kevin Reilly, Fox's entertainment chairman of, said in a statement. "These two series are the first of many big ideas, big names and big talent that you can anticipate will be on our air in the next 12-24 months."Are you excited for Wayward Pines and Blood Brothers?


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This guide explains how to use VoiceOver, the advanced screen-reading technology integrated into the Mac OS X operating system. This guide includes lists of VoiceOver commands for using VoiceOver with Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7).
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